By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
Previously, we offered some of the finest poems for July, so now we move forward into the month of August, a month which ‘brings the sheaves of corn, / Then the harvest home is borne’, according to the poet Sara Coleridge. Below are some of the best and most famous poems about the month of August, including, as ever, a few ‘wild cards’ which we’d especially recommend.